Carnation-plant holder



July 10, 1928. 1,676,337

, F. E. KRUSE CARNATION PLANT HOLDER Filed June 50. 1923 INVENTOR ATTORNEY Mam Patented July l0, i928.

* war FBEDERIGH E. KRUSE, or BINGHAM'roN, NEW YORK.

CARNATION-PLANT, HOLDER. 7

Application filed June 30, 1923. Serial No. 648,768.

My invention relates to improvements in carnation plant supports, and it has for its object to provide a cheap, simple, eflicient and durable plantsupport, which is inert pensive and which can be readily placedin position about the plant so. as to support it in all. its stages of growth, and adj ustablc to its progressive and growing stages, and to provide such a device whereby the parts V can be easily stored or shipped in compact fornn With these objects in view my invention consists in certain novel features of con- 'struction and arrangement of parts as will fbehereinafter more fully describe'd and' pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings 111 which:

Fig. 1 is a perspectiveview of my device, I

' compass or space, for future use or for ship 7 set in the ground; Fig. 2 is a side View of my device in a collapsed or compact form, I

Fig. 8 is'a plan view of my device; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a fragmentary part of a modified form of mydevice, Thesame reference characters denote like parts in each of theseveral figures of the 7 drawing.

In carrying out my invention, I provide a ring or opcn 'i'rame of suitable wire or other material, formed of sufficient length wire, so that from the point of union of one end of the wire with the body to complete the ring, an extended end 2 is left to be-bent downward, to form a standard or as L be a separate member from the ring; on

the opposite side, the ring body is so bent, as 'to form an eye or a recess 3, through which the opposite vertical standard 4 passes; for the purpose of holding the ring 2 in firm adjustment with the standard 4.

.I have a. set screw 0 mounted in any convenient manner in the eye body 3 tor-clamp I ing against standard at, as shown in Fig. 5 1; thus the portion of standard 4 below the set screw 5, may form an oppositeleg. for ring 2 of equal length with the other. Thus .ring 2, firmly supported by the standard 4:

and ic 2", imbedded in the earth ma be 0- sitioned close to the surface of the ground around the plant in the early stages of its leg for entry in the ground, or the leg may growth or raised to a higher position as the plant grows; as a further part of my. invcntlon, and for the further support of the plant in its upward growth, and toenable 5;,

a convenient sorting of the stems for-cutting, and groupin' of the same, I have the squares 6 and 7 formed-of corrugated or crimped wire in rectangular formation; the wire forming the same, may be so bent on one side as to form in construction an eye 3 and With the set screw 5 mounted therein,

engaging the standard 4; the standard 4. Y

passing through the eye 3 may sustain the frames 6 and 7 at any given point along its- 7 length. It is apparent that when not in use the crimped squares 6 and 7 may bedetached from the standard 4 and that the squares and standard may be packed or stored ina small ping. Thus'my device is readily adapted. to different heights of plants and flowers, or. vines. My device is not limited as to the number of-square crimped frames, tofbe adjustably mounted alongstandard 4; when not in use as an entire support frame, the rectangular crimped frames 6 and? may be arranged, resting, one above the other on the ring 2asshown in Fig. 2 or F 3.

, In'ja modified form ofimy invention I elect to have frame 8 mounted on sleeve 10 r by means of the swivel pivot 9;. the sleeve. 10 slidably mounted on standard 4, and adjustedby means of the set screw 5 mounted in sleeve .10; in this manner the frame 8 may be adjusted at.difierent angles on a horil' zontal axis, as well as on a vertical axis."

In operation, when the plants areyoung,'t-' I place the ring 2 near the bed surface so as Y tosupport and guide the plants in growing. When the plants are taller, I raise the ring or mount on the standard 4, the rectangular frame orv frames 6 and 7 and 1 or frame 8 sorting, grouping and cutting, I group the stems in the recesses formed by the corruga tions in the side offrames 6 and 7 and thus can more easily tion and cutting.

What I claim is: V In a plant support an open frame adaptedto be disposed'in a substantially horizontal so as to support the longerstems; andf'tor manipulate them forselec planeand provided with a downwardly bent portion penetrating the ground, an eye on the frame, a standard passing through the veye and adapted to be supported in the 5 ground, an additional frame provided with a sleeve to receive the standard, means for adjustably securing the sleeve on the standmit said additional frame to assume various 10 angles With respect to the open horizontal frame.

FREDERICH E. KRUSE. 

